Two issues are known. The first issue contains biographies of Arnauld and Pascal at v. 1, p. 15-16 and 65-66 respectively, each with added engraved portrait. In the second issue, these leaves have been cancelled and replaced with biographies and portrait of Thomassin and Du Cange, and the Table to v. 1 has been updated with cancel slips. Some copies of the second issue are known with the suppressed leaves added--Cf. Brunet
Getty research institute copy is of the second issue; however, the portraits of Arnauld and Pascal are appended to the end of vol. 1, and the biographies are accomplished in manuscript
Portraits engraved by C. Duflos, G. Edelinck, J. Lubin, and P. van Schuppen after designs by numerous artists
Engraved allegorical title-page in vol. 1, vignettes and tailpieces by S. Le Clerc; woodcut headpieces by P. Le Sueur
"Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 28. Septembre 1696"--V. 1, p. [10] (1st count); "Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 30. May 1700"--v. 2, p. [103]
Bound in old gilt red morocco; gilt spine; marbled edges; armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery, and Theodore Besterman on front pastedowns
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